Tag: Science

  • On AI Superalignment

    Autonomous superintelligence isn’t that far away. In the next decade, we can expect to have a machine that is given agency and is more intelligent than us—a machine that has the capacity to act and the ability to do things beyond our comprehension. This leaves us with a major problem—one of seemingly impossible nature: how…

  • On Technological Sovereignty

    The economy is not an eternal and infallible means of arranging opportunity in society. It crashes, it favors certain groups, it often pigeonholes the majority of the population into a technological feudalist society. Right now so few people can afford housing outright in North America that the “middle class” can no longer reasonably have a…

  • On Archetypes

    Our thought forms are biased based on patterns that fit into our taste profile for symbolic structure, and I see these structured thought forms as archetypes which are based not on some transcendent reality beyond our awareness, but are built upon the hidden factors that lead to and construct the human condition. Over evolutionary time,…

  • On Symbolic Engineering

    A liberating thought passed through my mind again: Amovera. And with it, the entirety of what I was working on in theology was reduced again to objective reality, and I saw again the framework of Symbolic Engineering as the ideal mode of understanding ethics, religion, and politics. As my mind shifted to the new modus…

  • On Rights and Duties

    Delegation of responsibility is simply how our society allows for more people to do more things and increase the technological advantage of craft. The more technology develops, the more focused people need to become to manage the complexity, and the less people need to generalize to survive. There are then both positive and negative incentives…

  • On Amorvera

    Linguistic Anthropology informs us that meaning is crafted by human cultures. This means that before human culture crafts meaning as a mode of assigning values to concepts and things, there is no meaning, no value, to anything. The world is then just an absurd chemical reaction, without any intelligence or purpose behind any of its…

  • On Sufficient Knowledge

    Between losing focus and grasping an idea is this wandering state of observation. It is as if the mind is just taking in the shape and form of a concept and noting it, not trying to interpret it or grasp it. It’s kind of like when someone is teaching you to put together a machine…

  • On Paradigm Organization

    A long time ago, I called it Abstract Paradigm Organization Logistics. Now I just call it the Logos. APOL is the logistics of how paradigms are organized as abstract constructs of thought. This includes the processes of how thought is itself an abstract construct of life, how life is an abstract construct of chemistry, and…